Cellphone snooping now easier and cheaper than ever
Dan Goodin, The Register, 1/3/2011 Cryptographers have devised a low-cost way to intercept phone calls and text messages sent over the majority of the world’s mobile networks. The attack, which requires four $15 Motorola handsets, a medium-end computer and a 2TB hard drive, was demonstrated last week at the 27th annual Chaos Communication Congress in [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, GSM, Motorola, T-Mobile, WiFi
fgVoIP App Allows VoIP Calls Over WiFi via PBX and SIP Provider
BlackBerry Cool 12/1/2010 When we last wrote about FgVoIP, they had developed a VoIP client that lets you make and receive VoIP calls on all BlackBerrys but they had a limited amount of device support. The company let us know that their client is now available on all BlackBerry Devices right up to and including [...]
In: Blackberry, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: GSM, VoIP, WiFi
GSMA opens the way for Apple SIM
Bill Ray, The Register, 11/18/2010 The GSMA is to create a new standard for manufacturers who don’t want their products sullied by an operator’s SIM, taking Apple a step closer to world domination. Not that Apple is a member of the new Task Force which will be defining the standard for software SIMs, but the [...]
In: iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: GSM
Verizon takes MiFi global with Fivespot
Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service, 10/4/2010 Verizon Wireless customers will be able to link their Wi-Fi devices to the Internet via 3G mobile networks in more than 120 countries with the Fivespot portable hotspot, set to go on sale Thursday. But globetrotting with it won’t be cheap. Like Verizon’s MiFi 2200, the Fivespot is a [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, Clearwire, EDGE, GSM, Hotspot, MiFi, Verizon, WiFi
The Big Shift: Moving to LTE From WiMAX
Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 5/30/2010 If WiMAX is a fad — a short-term bridge on the path to LTE as the global fourth-generation wireless standard — how will operators move from one network technology to another? Russian WiMAX provider Yota said last week that it would stop deploying WiMAX networks and switch instead to LTE for [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, 4G, CDMA, Clearwire, GSM, LTE, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiMax
Verizon, Google Developing iPad Rival
Niraj Sheth, The Wall Street Journal, 5/12/2010 Verizon Wireless is working with Google Inc. on a tablet computer, the carrier’s chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said Tuesday, as the company endeavors to catch up with iPad host AT&T Inc. in devices that connect to wireless networks. The work is part of a deepening relationship between the [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, GSM, Verizon
WSJ Reports CDMA iPhone on its way
Yukari Iwatani Kane, Ting-I Tsai and Niraj Sheth, Mobile Tech Today, 3/30/2010 Apple Inc. plans to begin producing this year a new iPhone that could allow U.S. phone carriers other than AT&T Inc. to sell the iconic gadget, said people briefed by the company. The new iPhone would work on a type of wireless network [...]
In: Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: AT&T, CDMA, GSM, Verizon, Vodafone
Mobile reformation: Piecing together Mobile World Congress
Keith Mallinson, FierceWireless, 3/4/2010 American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) based his well-known poem about misconceptions on an old tale from India. It is a salutary warning on the shortcomings of uncoordinated investigations on component parts and their relationships with the whole. Similarly, we should be recognise the limitations of piecemeal, space-by-space analysis of announcements, [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology · Tagged with: 3G, AT&T, Ericsson, Femtocell, GSM, LTE, Skype, WiFi
Hordes of new threats ahead for mobile networks
John Leyden, The Register, 2/24/2010 Faked femtocells will eff up your ess Malware on smartphones is just the first in a series of new security threats for mobile networks ushered in by the embrace of internet technologies, according to mobile phone encryption firms. Dr Bjoern Rupp, chief exec of GSMK CryptoPhone, warns that criminal gangs [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian · Tagged with: 3G, Femtocell, GSM, JailBreak, Linux, Malware, WiFi
Verizon: We’re ready for IMS-based voice on LTE
Mike Dano, FierceWireless, 2/18/2010 Verizon Wireless Executive Vice President of Network Planning Bill Stone said the carrier has installed IP Multimedia Subsystem technology and is currently testing it on its 3G network. Specifically, Stone said Verizon “will deploy IMS VoIP as soon as we can after the introduction of LTE smartphones,” though he declined to provide a timeframe. “We’re [...]
In: Mobile Technology · Tagged with: CDMA, GSM, LTE, Skype, Verizon, VoIP